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Complainant appear. It is wrong and disgraceful, that certain gentlemen who were in the Hosp'l by the highest authority in the State, should have drank a few times. Yet it is not wrong and no disgrace worthy of mention, that a Gov't Employee, should guzzle whisky for weeks, and then conceive himself foully wronged and fly into charges, because his whisky rations were stopped and he was not permitted to continue his 135 drinks "ad-infinitum". The above may seem harsh, but his testimony will bear no other construction. He further testifies concerning a pipe presentation and leaves it to be understood, that Dr Town, Dr Bell, Dr DeWitt Gen'l Ely and others drank whisky on that occasion. 

Dr De Witt 
This is false, Dr De Witt says "no whisky was drank by any one that I saw, I was in the room all the time."   

T. K. Noble (See Vol 2 Pp 42, L5) Chaplain T. K. Noble testifies, "No liquor was drank. I saw none in the room" (See Vol 2 Pp 21, L 20)

Not one of the gentlemen mentioned by Bruce ever drinks whisky as a beverage, every one of them are [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] strictly temperate men.

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